transcoding flac files

[alienkidmj12]

hi people,

all my music collection is in flac format,

im looking to stream my music over web interface using internal web player,

all i seem to get is error "Notice: Transcoders does not appear to be installed."

i have debian installed and have the binaries ffmpeg, lame and flac installed.

could someone help me with the settings for flac in

Name Convert from Convert to Step 1 Step 2

i already have he defaults for mp3, flv, mkv

when i click on play button currently, nothing happens

thanks

dave

[mrfloppy]

Are you shure that you installed ffmpeg? Debian use avconv instead of ffmpeg but you can create a symlink.

[alienkidmj12]

i will check i have avconf, do you know what settings i use for avconf if i have to use that ? im currently on debian jessie testing.

i know i have ffmpeg as i installed it with apt-get install

dave

[mrfloppy]

avconf is a fork of ffmpeg. The parameters for flac encoding are the same. As i said, i created a symlink on a raspberry test system and it worked without any problems.

[alienkidmj12]

mrfloppy, what are the parameters you used ? i guess i just use the paremeters already there.

thanks

dave

[mrfloppy]

mrfloppy, what are the parameters you used ? i guess i just use the paremeters already there.

if you create a symlink, you can leave everything as it is in subsonic. If you wanna use avconv you can keep the parameters but you have to replace ffmepeg with avconv in your subsonic transcoding settings.

[alienkidmj12]

so is avconv more likely to work with flac files than ffmpeg, as ffmpeg shows error above, i guess ill try tonight when i get home.

[alienkidmj12]

changed ffmpeg to avconv, still no luck, still reporting that transcoder not installed.